GENIUS Kick Off Meeting, Barcelona 4 - 5 December 2013

The workshop will be held in Barcelona on 4-5 December 2013. The meeting will be in the Seminar room of the Department of Astronomy, in the 7th floor of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Barcelona.

Minutes

• GENIUS_KOM_minutes.pdf

Local information

Information on travel to the Department of Astronomy in Barcelona and accommodation can be found at this page.

Teleconference connections

Connection through Webex will be provided. Use the following link to join the meeting:

https://esa-meeting.webex.com/esa-meeting/j.php?ED=233067337&UID=491140222&PW=NOTI3Mjg4YWI1&RT=MTgjMjI%3D

A test session will be held before the meeting.

4th December

9h30 - 11h

• Welcome and agenda (X. Luri, 10 min)
• THE CONTEXT, and Guidelines for a good start (Traian Branza, 20min + 15min questions)
• UB-FBG administration issues (Nuria Benitez, 30min + 15 min questions)

11:00 - 11:30 COFFE BREAK

11:30 - 13:00

• Short introduction of partners (All, 1.5hours) Please present here your team and your institute organizational issues related to GENIUS
  • UB: (Xavier Luri)
  • Leiden: (Anthony Brown)
  • Frederic Arenou (see WP presentation)
  • Nigel Hambly (see WP presentation)
  • INAF (Ricky Smart)
  • [[https://gaiawiki.ub.edu/pub/GENIUS/KickoffMeeting/20131204_GENIUS_videoconf.key.pdf][Geneve] (Laurent Eyer)
  • CSIC: (Enrique Solano)
  • FFCUL (Andre Moitinho)
  • Bristol (Mark Taylor)
  • CESCA (Alfred Gil):
  • KU (Yoshiyuki Yamada)
  • Dimitri Pourbaix

LUNCH

14h30 - 18h

• GENIUS in the Gaia context: DPAC & CU9 (Xavier Luri, 30min)
• WP100: Management (Xavier Luri, 15min)
• WP200: Tailoring to the end user community (Anthony Brown, 30min)
• WP300, Aspects of archive system design (Nigel Hambly, 30min)

16:15- 16:45 COFFE BREAK

• WP400, Tools for data exploitation (Xavier Luri, 30min)
• WP500, Tools for data validation and analysis (Frederic Arenou, 30min)
• WP600, Support Activities (Jordi Torra, 30min)
  • WebPortal E. Masana & T. Via (CESCA)
  • WP620: Simulated Catalogue Data (F. Julbe, UB)

SOCIAL DINNER

5th December

9h30 - 12h30

• The GENIUS TWiki (D. Molina)
• Joint discussion of GENIUS set up and detailed planning for the first year

10:30- 11:00 COFFE BREAK

• Joint discussion of GENIUS set up and detailed planning for the first year (ctd).

Participants

• Frédéric Arenou (OPM)
• Daniel Hestroffer (OPM/IMCCE)
• Lola Balaguer (UB)
• Nuria Benitez (FBG - UB) only Wednesday
• Traian Branza (EC, Project Officer) only Wednesday
• Anthony Brown (ULEIDEN) - Late arrival
• Laurent Eyer (UNIGE) - videocon
• Alfred Gil (CESCA) only Wednesday
• Gonzalo Gracia (ESAC)
• Nigel Hambly (UEDIN)
• Francesc Julbe (UB)
• Xavier Luri (UB)
• Eduard Masana (UB)
• André Moitinho de Almeida (FFCUL) - videocon
• Ricky Smart (INAF, only Wed. leaving at 16h)
• Enrique Solano (CAB)
• Dimitri Pourbaix (ULB) - videocon
• Mark Taylor (UBR)
• Jordi Torra (UB)
• Teresa Via (CESCA) only Thursday 5th
• Nami Mowlavi- videocon
• Yoshiyuki Yamada (UKyoto) - videocon